<p>Congratulations to you and your son geogirl1! Always great to hear good news.</p>
<p>Fabulous news Geogirl! Congratulations!</p>
<p>Congrats to geogirl’s S on being the best delegate. And also to mathinokc and Apollo6 for the great math/science news. </p>
<p>The biggest thing that’s happened to us this week is that D got her learner’s permit today. Just when I got used to having her big brother on the road, now it’s her turn. I feel more grey hairs already. :eek:</p>
<p>D - congrats to your D on her learners permit. My D will be 16 in a month and still is not interested in learning to drive. I am not pushing her until she is ready. I would like her to get her license and have some time driving before she goes off to college, but she has plenty of time for that.</p>
<p>Congrats to your D, DougBetsy! May you have all the patience needed to get through her learning process!</p>
<p>Good luck to all of us w/new drivers. D12 got her permit two weeks ago and I let her drive to the golf course today. After pulling out of our driveway, she stepped on the gas and realized she was still in reverse. So, she stepped on the brakes a little too hard. It felt like we were rear ended! Gotta schedule that driving lesson ASAP.</p>
<p>we’re a couple of months into the learning-to-drive process with D2 and I’m still a nervous wreck - H is much calmer in the car with her than I am! and now D1, who was never interested in getting her license, is home after her first year of college and she wants to learn now, too. any parents of twins out there with advice on teaching two kids at once?!</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! He was glowing when he came back from the UN. As you all know, getting a 16 yr. old boy to be glowingly happy is near impossible these days. It was great to see him so happy with himself!</p>
<p>Good luck to all the new drivers. DS1 just started driving with my DH. DH has to take him out in my car a few times and then he will be driving with me. Exciting, but scary too.</p>
<p>I still have about a month before S12 turns 16 and gets his permit. D10 has had her license for almost a year, and the biggest issue I had teaching her was trying not to appear nervous in the passenger seat. It’s really hard to not press your foot to the floor when you want them to brake. Considering S12 has been complaining all year about how slow a driver D10 is, I think I have my work cut out for me with him.</p>
<p>Good Luck to all new drivers and their parents. ;)</p>
<p>My 15 year old is set to begin Driver’s Ed in June. We can get the permit in two weeks. I am dreading this but DH is a former racer so he seems more excited than S. He can’t get this license until 16.5 so we have almost a year of supervised driving ahead.</p>
<p>Congrats to your son, Geogirl1. What country did he represent? I’m hoping my daughter’s new school with have Model UN. I think she would really enjoy that.</p>
<p>Good Luck to all the parents of beginning drivers. We’ve resisted so far, despite a 17 yo son and a 16 yo daughter. Don’t think we’ll be able to get away with that much longer, however. Last year when S1 wanted to take driver’s ed my husband looked at me and said, “He’s not driving my car.” I looked back at him and said, “Well, he’s not driving mine.” and that was that. This year, however S1 has convinced dh that it is a social handicap not to drive and that he had to be allowed to learn now. Yet, as soon as dh got him the driver’s manual and told him to study, he quit pestering us. We’ll see when that comes up again… Hopefully he’ll be old enough not to have the kind of careless accidents that his friends have had.</p>
<p>DD has had her permit for a couple of months. Generally, DH takes her driving, it makes me a nervous wreck. She’s actually a lot more cautious than I thought she would be, and a lot slower. We will have to let her drive more often, and more consistently, when her schedule lets up a bit.<br>
We did schedule several lessons with an instructor, first. Much easier and safer for all concerned.</p>
<p>My D’12 has had her permit for 3 months and still gives me a few “white-knuckle” moments here and there. :eek: Thank goodness for driver’s ed!!</p>
<p>We live in a state where you can get a restricted license at the age of 14 which allows you to drive alone from 6 am to 10 pm. Once you turn 16 you can receive your unrestricted drivers license. S’10 started driving alone shortly before he turned 15. Due to a snafu with S’12’s learner’s permit (requiring an adult in the car) he didn’t start driving alone until he was 15 1/2. Needless to say our state is number 50 for “worst teen drivers”. So far between my 2 boys we have had only two very minor bumper bumps - no damage to our car and minor damage to bumpees (both happen to be students at the same school). Oh and we’ve had one speeding ticket (going 84 in a 65) - it cost S’10 virtually his entire paycheck for the week to pay it. Guess he learned a lesson!</p>
<p>Hi Everyone, my oldest daughter is graduating tomorrow and heading to MIT in the fall. She got off the waitlist last thursday and we were just so happy for her. Now I will be focusing on my D’12. I am starting all over again. Her focus is history, art history and english. Lets stay together during this journey. It is not easy, but it is so rewarding at the end.</p>
<p>Goodfit, there are a few of us who’ve migrated here from the class of '10 thread. Looking forward to the next two years!</p>
<p>We are moving out of US after this school year. I have decided to hire a private college counselor for D2. The firm is in CA, we will use Skype for SAT tutoring and counseling. They come highly recommended and seem kind of reasonable. D2’s new international school will not have as strong of counseling as her current private school. I am just worried she won’t have the same guidance as d1.</p>
<p>D2 is taking Chem and literature SAT II this June.</p>
<p>GoodFit: Congratulations for your D going to MIT. What a accomplishment! </p>
<p>I have a question: While she was on the waitlist, how did she handle other schools’ deadlines? Because waitlist is not a certain thing, you have to accept one of other schools she got accepted.</p>
<p>Don’t mean to jump in the middle here but just joined cc after a friend sent a link. Have a D in hs class of 2012 and it’s been interesting reading all the helpful info posted.</p>